<![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> I always thought that once Hitachi took over the IBM drives they were good to go (ie no longer deathstar)... so is that wrong?

i have no data to support either way.

Oh, and someone around here knows which manufacturers make the good drives (here's lookin at you Google)...but they wont tell

rainfever

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> @DivZero:
Me too--then I stopped wiping my ass with them.

islandmonk

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> I went through Maxtors like toilet paper at a stage...

DivZero

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> Call me when i can buy one for a hundred bucks

WolfDV

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]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> It's not a TuMR!

Brock

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> I have a Western Digital 500GB Network Hard Drive. On the box it says:

"The WD Promise. WD Understands the importance of the information you save to your hard drive and we are committed to protecting that data with exceptionally reliable products, advanced data protection technology, and superior customer support. No one does more to safeguard your data than WD. PUT YOUR LIFE ON IT."

My drive failed on Tuesday evening this week with 400Gb of my data on it. About 300GB was backup and I have a duplicate, but about 100 GB was video that I made that was being stored there as there was no space on my PC.

The drive is getting replaced under warranty, but who replaces the lost data?

They say "PUT YOUR LIFE ON IT". I'm not so sure...

Toto

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> Yawn... wake me up when Drexel University's 13 petabytes per cc material is implemented into consumer hard drives.

Attrition

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> @Knight: Seagate breaking on you? Really? I worked at EMC and tested hard drives for 5 years and we consistently went with Seagate for reliability. (Albeit Fibre Channel drives)

Western Digital on the other hand, the only thing worse is an IBM Deathstar, um I mean Deskstar

Navin R Johnson

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> I've had more WD drives fail on me, but then again I have a good track record with Maxtor, which people tend to hate.

So I go Seagate when I can.
Never any problems with those.

Of course, your mileage may vary.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> I'm with WEAK_PIG. I want some big, short-term revolutions...I want great stuff tomorrow. I also don't want it to be expensive, but that's just me.

Also: I don't really understand why manufacturers even bother to announce these technological "revolutions" that basically show that the current trend of technological advancements will continue for a few more years. This isn't unexpected. I could have predicted it.

I can just make estimates based on the percentage increases in hard drive capacity in the past few years.

Looky here:

2005: 500 GB 3.5" hard drives
2006: 750 GB (add 50%)
2007: 1000 GB (add 33%)
2008: oh, about 1400 GB (add 40%)
2009: I'll guess, 2000 GB (added 41%)
2010: booyah: 3 TB. (added 50%, just like 2006)

Oooo, everybody look at Western Digital! They expect to plod along at the current pace of technology! Everybody lavish them with praise!

EQC

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> @Neil.Will:

Thats funny, I only buy Western Digital HDDs because they've always been the most reliable for me. Every Seagate or Maxtor I've bought has died way too fast for my liking.

Knight

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> damnit!! why can't technology move FASTER?? i'm already 30 and i ain't getting any younger.

weak_pig

]]> <![CDATA[Western Digital Announces Record Breaking Hard Drive Density]]> Thats fantastic, now if my Western Digital Hard Drives would just stop breaking I could actually give a damn.

Neil.Will

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